Now we’re getting somewhere
I am for a strong, effective foriegn policy, which not only includes allies and respect for human rights, but an Army which is trained and equipped to fight effectively, one where soldiers do not get loans for armored vests, do not uparmor their vehicles with “hillbilly armor” found in Iraqi scrapyards and coated with god knows what chemicals. Or field expedient gun trucks. Soldiers who do not fire with abandon with rifles which may jam.
The Group of Soviet Forces Germany is a memory. Why do we still train to fight it? A real foreign policy, a real, tough, democratic policy would build on success, not failure, call the GOP policy for what it is, a quagmire, not only in Iraq, but North Korea, Iran, the West Bank.
The time has come to call the GOP policy for the fraud it is and frame “toughness” as a way to promote and protect this country without claiming an imperial right. The right has failed and the left needs to state that and offer real, credible alternatives.
Remember Bush lapdog John Thune, who defeated Daschle in South Dakota last year, partially on the issue of base closings in the state? Well, Bush has decided to close the airforce base there anyway and Thune is not liking that and starting to rebel over this. Might now be the time to start campaigning for the next senatorial elections there?